Founded in 1998 by singer/songwriter Brad Palmer on lead guitar, harp and vocals, singing drummer Paul Holmberg and rhythm guitarist Mark “Numbers” Buhmann, the lads take their travelling blues from SE Qld beach to festival to outback Victoria. Young gun bassist Scott Denford joined the line up in early 2011. Bluesville Station takes the road rolling sounds of Creedence, mixes it with Neil Young and Johnny Winter’s blues, throw in strong rock influences like Eric Clapton, Canned Heat, emerging with their own huge original sound. Festivals include Gympie Muster, Blues On Broadbeach, Blues at Bridgetown, Burleigh Solstice, 1770 Fest, and Aust Blues Fest Goulburn. Blues radio plays them around Aust, Europe & USA, song ‘Keep On Rollin' was used in a Utah media campaign for train travel and standout offering Spanglish ‘No Tengo Dinero’, comes a long way from the band’s roots in original dashtapping boogie music about rolling down the highway. Six albums  with 2012 'Step On The Gas'  hitting No2 on the Australian Blues and Roots Airplay Charts!

If you like to rock it up, step out and boogie or just sit back and relax to enjoy some travellin' blues, jump off right here. The lads down at the Station are fired up and ready to roll with a swag of music and entertainment to make you feel good and ease your worried mind. 
www.bluesvillestation.com.au
 

Mark Easton is a high octane blues machine who burns it up on slide guitar. Elements of blues, rock, dirty grooves, funk and gnarly slide playing are blazingly evident with Mark’s love of the stronger side of the blues- acknowledging styles like RL Burnside, Hound Dog Taylor, Led Zeppelin, Black Keys, White Stripes.  The loop system layers his music, combined with harmonica and drumming with his feet to provide a full, fat sound. Some very fine acoustic guitar picking rounds off the flip side of this musical dynamo.
“Lovers of biting, ruthless slide guitar and blues rock, funk rock and hard rock are going to have the time of their lives.” 
Mark began his music career in his dad’s 20 piece Sydney Jazz band and then a series of hard punk/pop/glamrock bands, until a burnt out Easton took off surfing and fell in love with the blues.  He cleaned up his life, pulled together a band called Mark Easton Limousine which toured through 3 albums until he went solo again with cd Money is the Root of All Evil. That did well on USA blues charts, Blues Beat chart in Australia and springboarded him into many Australian blues festivals.
Community radio is abuzz with new cd ‘Grind’ receiving instant airplay also in France, Belgium, Denmark, UK, USA. and with six consecutive months now in the top 25 on Australian Blues and Roots Airplay Charts!

www.markeaston.com.au

 

After spending 2012 performing in 14 different countries across the globe, Tom Richardson brings his infectious personality and contagious melodies back home. Singlehandedly entertaining audiences at major Canadian festivals, small bars in Europe and highland village tribes in Fiji, Tom returns with a new solo show, a large swag of songs and a guitar case full of stories. Using the latest in loop pedal technology, this multi-award winning artist creates a wall of sound, overdubbing four part vocal harmonies, complicated percussion grooves and lead and rhythm guitar parts, all live on stage.

“I will eat my dinner suit if Tom is not a roaring success!”
Jamie McKew (Festival Director) Port Fairy Folk Festival

Taking part in many international concerts, Australian festivals include: Woodford Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Music Muster, Queenscliff Music Festival, Bridgetown Blues Festival and National Folk Festival. Tom has a formidable list of music awards and also contributions to surfing documentaries and national television programmes.
 
www.tomrichardsonproject.com